The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Iustyse he was ful oftyn in asyse
                                
                                  Be patent & be pleyn commyssioun
                                
                                  ffor hese sience & for hese heye renoun
                                  Line 316 
                                
                                  Of feis & robis hadde he manyon
                                
                                  So gret a purchasour was neuere nor
                                
                                  Al was fesymple to hym in effect
                                
                                  His purchase myȝte not ben enfect
                                  Line 320 
                                
                                  Neuere so besy a man as he þere nas
                                
                                  And þat he semede besiere þan he was
                                
                                  In termys hadde he cas & domys alle
                                
                                  þat from the tyme of kyng welyam were falle
                                  Line 324 
                                
                                  Therto he coude endite & make a thyng [folio 136a] 
                                
                                  Ther coude no man pynche at hese writyng
                                
                                  And euery statut coude he pleyn be rote
                                
                                  He rod but homely in a medely cote
                                  Line 328 
                                
                                  Gyrt with a seynt of silk with barrys smale
                                
                                  Of hese aray telle I no lengere tale
                                
                                  A frankeleyn was in hese cumpanye [ffrankeleyn] 
                                
                                  Whit was hese berd as is þe daysie
                                  Line 332 
                                
                                  Of complexioun he was sanguyn
                                
                                  Wel louede be þe morwe a soppe in wyn
                                
                                  To leuyn in delit was euere hese wone
                                
                                  ffor he was epicurus owene sone
                                  Line 336 
                                
                                  That [[t in later hand]]  held opynyoun þat pleyn delyt
                                
                                  Was uery felicite parfyt
                                
                                  An housholdere & þat a gret was he
                                
                                  Seynt Ielion he was in that cuntre
                                  Line 340 
                                
                                  Hese bred hese ale was alwey aftyr on
                                
                                  A betere enuynede man was nower non
                                
                                  With-oute bake mete was neuere his hous
                                
                                  Of fysch & flesch & þat so plentyuous
                                  Line 344 
                                
                                  It snowede in his mouth of mete [[te in late hand]]  & drynk
                                
                                  Of alle deynteis that [[t altered to at by a later hand]]  men coude þynk
                                
                                  Aftyr þe sundery sesenys of the ȝer
                                
                                  So chaungede he hese mete & hese soper
                                  Line 348 
                                
                                  fful manye a fat perterych hadde he in mewe

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 10
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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